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will rent or sell the land. The Mt. Auburn St. site will be developed by the Cambridge Corporation, a non-profit organization established by Harvard and M. I. T. to aid local low-income housing, while the West Cambridge site will go to Starrett Brothers and Eken, a private housing development company...
Director Jack Starrett and Cinematographer John Stephens pad out their film with lots of repetitive footage of the Advocates barreling up the California coast, but they also pull off a split-screen chase scene that puts The Thomas Crown Affair to shame. As Angel and Laurie, William Smith and Valerie Starrett (the director's wife) make up in enthusiasm what they lack in finesse. Angel is obviously and deeply indebted to Bonnie and Clyde, and even more to Nicholas Ray's 1949 They Live by Night, but anyone who expects a work as accomplished as those will...
...specialists to set up an "underground business combine" that rigged markets in certain stocks, made the Res an estimated profit of $3,000,000 between 1954 and 1960. The Res would first arrange to buy stock at bargain prices from hard-pressed insiders in such companies as Thompson-Starrett, Skiatron Electronics. Silver Creek Precision Corp. and United Pacific Aluminum Corp. To avoid the SEC regulations that any company that wishes to sell stock publicly must register with the commission, the Res then funneled the stock into dummy accounts, some of them set up abroad. To spur demand for the stock...
...Hoffa's hoodlum business agents, Gus Zapas, forced Attorney David Probstein out as president of an Indianapolis cab company. Asked Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy of Betty Starrett, a former secretary in Probstein's office: "What did Zapas say to Probstein at that time?" Replied Witness Starrett: "He said to get out-and he speaks very colorfully." Question: "Did Zapas say anything about killing him?" Answer: "Yes, but he used that expression like I would say 'Hello.' " After talking to Zapas, Probstein went to St. Louis on a "business trip." He has not been seen since...
Died. Paul Starrett, 90, co-founder (1922) and longtime board chairman of Starrett Brothers (later Starrett Brothers & Eken), builders of the Empire State Building and such other Manhattan landmarks as the Flatiron Building, Pennsylvania Railroad Station and the Plaza, Commodore and Biltmore hotels, as well as luxury hotels in other cities throughout the U.S., and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.; in Greenwich, Conn...